The Brownsville Herald

The history of U.S. cities scrambling to address a humanitarian crisis when thousands of migrants arrive at their doorstep is now playing out far...

Coast Guard crews interdicted an illegal Mexican fishing crew off South Padre Island on Thursday, confiscating 220 pounds of illegally caught fish.

Hurricane Julia has run ashore in Nicaragua and is continuing its move westward toward the Pacific Ocean, dumping up to a dozen inches of rain on Central America in the process.

HARLINGEN —A 15-percent rise in pedestrian traffic fatalities in 2021 has led TxDOT to initiate a “Be Safe. Drive Smart.” campaign as days grow shorter and walkers become harder to see.

If you have been out when there were no clouds this past week Jupiter was showing off in the east, seeming to be all alone in the darkening sky by eight o’clock. With a decent telescope which has been allowed to acclimate to the temperature outside, the patterns of the cloudy surface will be visible. Currently passing through the constellation Pisces, below the Great Square of Pegasus, be sure to scope the surface and notice the colors of its cloud cover. Perhaps you will set up your telescope for Halloween passers-by to be treated to Jupiter that night.

MISSION — Up by just one during the fifth and decisive set, Sharyland Pioneer was searching for someone to make a play to put...

HARLINGEN — During his historic campaign stumps across Texas, Mexican-Americans’ first state gubernatorial candidate stirred students like Rogelio Nunez to keep pushing for the growing Chicano movement’s civil rights goals.

A forensic analysis of a failed power plant deal that Brownsville Public Utilities Board entered into in 2013 concludes that BPUB management took extraordinary steps to continuing promoting the project as viable even after it clearly wasn’t, all in order to maintain the higher rates that had been imposed on customers to pay for the project, and to proceed with right-of-way acquisition for a related natural gas pipeline that would never be built.

Twelve more Rio Grande Valley residents died due to COVID-related complications while another 700 new cases were reported this week.

Runners turned out for the 7th Annual Community Cancer Awareness Ride & Run to support cancer survivors and fighters Saturday at the Brownsville Events Center. The event, split across two days, featured a 10K, 5K and 1-mile Fun Run on Saturday and a 25-mile bike ride on Sunday starting at 7 a.m., with proceeds going back into the community to help local families dealing with cancer.